[git pull] drm fixes

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 	jffs2_clear_inode(inode);
> > 
> > into
> > 
> > 	make_bad_inode(inode);
> > 	iput(inode);
> > 
> > and that changelog doesn't really explain it either ("fix leak"? Ok, I can 
> > see the iput() fixing the leak - but you also did that jffs2_clear_inode() 
> > change, and that has no explanation what-so-ever.
> 
> The final iput() calls ->clear_inode() (jffs2_clear_inode in case of jffs2)
> and the inode has just been created, with no other in-core references
> existing.  Basically, that call was the only part of (required) iput() that
> _was_ done there ;-)
> 
> FWIW, what's happening around ->clear_inode()/->delete_inode()/->drop_inode()
> is a mess.  This leak got found when I'd been looking through that crap;
> results of sanitizing are in #evict_inode (vfs-2.6.git).  I'm going to shift
> that into for-next tomorrow, assuming it survives local beating.  For now
> I've just pulled jffs2-fixes in it...

Ok, a changelog like that would have been a good thing. Not that I usually 
care, but now that I'm in careful mode, I do end up looking at things like 
this, and a good changelog would have goen m uch further in convincing me 
that the "goto fail" changes really were just about fixing the leak, and 
that there wasn't some other change hidden in the same commit.

			Linus